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T. E. PERKINS.

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ITED STATES PATENT FFQEW EGG-CARRIER.

EPECIE'ICA'I'IC'JN forming part of Letters Patent No. 449,330, dated March 31, 1891.

Application filed August 1, 1890- serial No. 360,724. (No model.)

To all whom-it may concern:

Be it known that I, THEODORE E. PERKINS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Tunkhannock, in the county of Wyoming and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Egg-Carriers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates in general to packing-cases for storing eggs or for conveying them safely from the producer to the consumer, and more particularly to that class of packing-cases whichjare subdivided into compartments or cells, one for each egg; and its object is to provide means whereby the outer walls, including the top and bottom of the said cells, may be protected from contact with the carriage on which the said case rests and with other cases above, in order that a thin and inexpensive material, such as pasteboard and wood shavings, may constitute the case without danger to the eggs contained.

To this end my invention consists in the construction and combination of parts forming an egg-carrier, hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure I represents a longitudinal Vertical section of an egg-carrier according to my invention. Fig. II represents a partition in side view. Fig. III represents either the top or bottom out in proper form and dotted where the corners are to be formed by bending. Fig. IV is a perspective view of one of my egg-carriers without the cover and with one end piece swung open at the corner fold, and Fig. V represents a strip creased for forming the sides and ends of the said egg-carrier.

The carrier herein shown is adapted to carry one dozen eggs.

6 represents the partitions, having vertical slits 7 half-way across each, adapted to engage each other when crossed longitudinally and transversely in the usual manner, and each partition has aprojecting end 8, beyond the outer crossing partition, adapted to rest against the sides 9 of the case, so as to prevent the indentation of a side far enough to endanger the adjacent egg. The corners of the partitions are out off at 10, leaving the ends 8 narrow at their bearings on the sides to give greater elasticity to the sides within the danger limit. The sides 9 may be formed of one continuous strip, as shown in Fig. V, to be bent at the crease-marks l1 and secured at the corner in any suitable manner, such as pasting or wiring the end 12 to the corner tab 13. The top let and bottom 15 are formed with flanged edges 16, like common box-covers; but I proportion them to fit closely Within the surrounding sides in an inverted positionthat is, with the flange outward. This flange is to be secured to the contiguous side by means of paste, nails, wire, or any other adequate means, either permanently or removably, but so as to unite with the sides rigidly While in service, thus preventing both top and bottom from coming in contact with any plane surface, upon which the case rests, or. with superimposed cases, and at the same time preventing the said top and bottom from being forced outward away from the sides by the weight of the eggs, the flange of said top and bottom forming a rest for self-support. If the sides of the case projecting above and below the cells had the bottom and top fastened in against the cells by separate pieces in place of the present flanges of the top and bottom, some of the advantages of my invention would be obtained.-

Having thus fully described my invention, what I believe to be new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is the following:

1. The combination, in an egg-carrier, of a series of egg-carrying cells, box sides surrounding the said cells and projecting above and below their level, and a top and bottom, each provided with a flange and adaptedto fit within the said sides and to be secured thereto flange outward, substantially as described.

2. The combination, in an egg-carrier, of a series of cells adapted to closely inclose one egg each, a top and bottom therefor, and sides surrounding the said cells, top and bottom, and projecting above the body of the top and below the body of the bottom and fastened to both, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

'1. E. PERKINS. Witnesses:

HENRY HARDING, A. M. KIRKHAM. 

